ARIGATOU MINNA!
Thanks so much everyone! For the b-day gifts, messages, ... for all the love you gave me! It really means a lot to me! It's great to know I have friends here that I can count on!
So here's a little vector as a way of saying "Thank you"
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Full Vector @ AP soon

Worked on this all afternoon. Outlining wasn't hard, the coloring was the challenge.
I never did so much painting work on my life, and I was really scared of it 'cause I suck so much at painting :x
I'm afraid that there are lots and lots of flaws (I'm sure there are) visible to others because of the brightness of their screens >_<

This was the original image, no bigger version until December 3rd, but I couldn't wait. And it's no problem, I've worked with much smaller images (which I'll be re-vectoring soon btw).

I wanted to do the same type of coloring, so painting was the only way. Oh man, I barely use the smudge tool plus I still haven't got a new mouse and I suck at using my tablet... you can see that, some lines are really weird...
She had these "huge" lips on the original image, but I thought the way I made them smaller looked better.
I'm not proud of the gloves, they were the most difficult for me. I couldn't find the right colors to blend :sweat:
Her hair was really fun to paint. (Sheryl's hair is so pretty and interesting XD)
Again, my best allies were the burn and dodge tool. They're wonderful :P
Ah and yes, I added a sparkle to her earring. Macross fans know how important the earring is.
No ideas for a bg, so I just tried to make it like the one in the original pic.

Last, I added some snow cause of the title.
Title comes from D.Gray-Man's 1st ED "Snow Kiss".
Not only I had that music playing but I thought it was fitting with the vector, Sheryl blowing a kiss, and it reminded me of winter so~

I think the wall version looks too busy, since Sheryl takes up all the space. But since there were requests for it, here's the wall~

C&C is welcome (as usual)
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Duration: November 24th
Easiest: Outlining~
Hardest: Painting! The gloves and skin, mostly!
Fun Part: hair, hair, hair~ I love coloring hair ^_^'
Program: Photoshop CS2
Original Size: 2800 x 2716
Original Image: Here
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Again, thanks so much everyone~ :3